Bill Clinton claims Israeli leaders dont care for Mideast peace, says Kamala Harris cant have plan to end war

GREENSBURG, Pa.– Former President Bill Clinton claimed Tuesday that Israeli leaders “don’t care anymore” about peace between the Jewish State and Palestinians and said Vice President Kamala Harris “can’t have” a plan to end the war in the Middle East. Clinton, 78, was stumping for Harris in Western Pennsylvania when an anti-Israel protester interrupted his remarks, demanding an answer from him on what the vice president would do to stop “the genocide” in Gaza and end US military support for Israel. “That’s a fair question,” the 42nd president responded, before going on a 15-minute-long discourse about how he fell short of negotiating a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 2000. When the keffiyeh-wearing protester interrupted the rambling ex-president again, charging that the majority of the Palestinian children being killed in the current conflict are not “because of Hamas,” Clinton responded, “I agree with some of what you just said.” “But let me remind you, everybody is assuming that Israel should have just been standing there where they were 20 years ago,” he said, referring to the near peace deal between former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the late PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat“Israel changed dramatically,” Clinton argued.

“And now the people who have been going in – they don’t care anymore, of this directly.” “So we’re going to have to build it again,” he added.“That’s all I can tell you.”The former president signaled his support for a two-state solution, an approach that has been favored by the Harris-Biden administration.  “I think the Palestinians are entitled to a homeland,” Clinton said.

“I think what’s happened in the West Bank is wrong, but Hamas always had a different ideology.”He also claimed that the “far right-wingers in Israeli politics” were “happy when Hamas won the election” because the terror group “historically has ...